I don’t know if I’d mentioned this before, but I was having difficulty getting the blog-by-email setup between my hosted WP and Google Apps email. (yes, now I’ve given the hackers of the world all they need to take over and make me look like a fool; little do they know I can do that just fine by myself). At any rate, I figured I’d give Posterous a try: I can post to it by email, and it will in turn post to Real Life, Virtual World. Call me lazy if you like, but I appreciate the ability to post by email. It perhaps means I’ll be more likely to write stuff (crazy thought, ain’t it?).
What I’m interested to see is whether or not the blog grabs the tag that I’m sending to Posterous in this mail. Hmmm…
There are a couple of other reasons I’m interested in trying Posterous, though they’re still auto-blogging related. I have it on good authority that the bookmarklet is rather lovely, and after having been spoiled by the FriendFeed bookmarklet this is now high on my priority list. I’ve tried it out and so far it looks like it will do well, especially since it gives me the option to share the item everywhere (which now just means Posterous and this site), or post only to Posterous. This is important because I want to avoid an echo problem if at all possible and some of the items I’ll be bookmarking into Posterous will come from FriendFeed (and if those items were to auto-post to Real Life, Virtual World they’d just turn around and go right back into FriendFeed and that would mean the world would end or something). My only gripe with the bookmarklet so far is that I see no way to tag items. I tried using the same nomenclature as tagging via email, to no avail.
At any rate, I’m hoping having one more avenue by which to post material means I’ll be more likely to keep up with what has the opportunity to be a rather enjoyable and gratifying site. More to the specifically, though, is the fact that I’ve been asked to include some frugal eating tips here on Real Life, Virtual World. I’m all kinds of happy to do so, but right now my blogging time is rather limited. I’m hoping the Posterous integration will help me out, allowing me to quickly share tips when I find them.
